peremptoriness

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Covering not just movies and television but also theater and cabaret, Reed, a Southerner who seemed as much a part of Manhattan as the skyline, lorded over the arts with a homogenizing mainstream peremptoriness.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026

Now off with you, child,' with laughing peremptoriness; and Mollie only paused to kiss her friend and whisper that she was quite happy now, as she would have her all to herself the next day.

From Lover or Friend by Carey, Rosa Nouchette

With the strain of attention I was already under I could not even make an intelligent guess at his meaning, as O'Farrell, mistaking my hesitation, repeated it with growing peremptoriness.

From A Woman of Genius by Austin, Mary Hunter

"Then let us pray that I may get back to the point," with grave peremptoriness.

From Helen Grant's Schooldays by Douglas, Amanda M.

Her exhortations at the sick-bed have a somewhat startling peremptoriness about them.

From Stray Studies from England and Italy by Greene, John Richard